Ralph Immell

Ralph Maxwell Immell (September 11, 1894 – August 29, 1969) was an American lawyer, military officer, and progressive politician from Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. He served as adjutant general of Wisconsin for 23 years, from 1923 to 1946, and served as a United States Army general in World War II, managing American and Allied logistics in the North African and European theaters.

Throughout his career, he was actively involved in supporting the progressive movement in Wisconsin and was a close ally of Philip La Follette during the era of the Wisconsin Progressive Party. He worked as an assistant district attorney under Theodore G. Lewis, and served as executive secretary to Wisconsin governor John J. Blaine before Blaine appointed him adjutant general. While serving as adjutant general, Immell also served seven years on the Wisconsin Conservation Commission (1931–1938), including three years as chairman, creating a conservation jobs program which became a forerunner for Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps.

In 1938, he was executive director of the National Progressives of America, a short-lived attempt to nationalize the progressive movement as a third party. After the progressive party collapsed, he ran as a progressive candidate for the Republican Party gubernatorial nomination in 1946 and 1948, but lost both primaries to conservative Republican candidates. Later in life, he was president of Radio Wisconsin Inc. and was instrumental in securing their television broadcast license and establishing WISC-TV.